Decommissioning and Abandonment

Referencing the many mature offshore fields that are drawing ever-closer to retirement, Baker Hughes has published a 'Perspectives' article exploring why improving the cost for plug and abandonment is not only an industry opportunity but an industry

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Marking its latest development as a 'decommissioning milestone', Perenco UK announced that it has successfully completed the plug and abandonment of three subsea wells at the Gawain field in the UK Southern North Sea.

Challenging decommissioning

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Decom Engineering (Decom), a provider of green decommissioning solutions, has executed three market-entry

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The North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has released the latest version of the Decommissioning Data Visibility Dashboard in a bid to make decommissioning operations more cost-efficient.

When first piloted by the organisation in 2021, the platform included field-specific

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In a five-year joint framework agreement with Talos Energy Inc, Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc gets the first right of refusal regarding specific annual work scopes for Talos’s decommissioning

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Sapura Energy and Norway-based AF Offshore Decom launched their joint decommissioning venture called Kitar Solutions at OTC Asia 2024.

Sapura's strategic assets and AF Offshore Decom's

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Plexus Holdings PLC, an AIM-quoted oil and gas engineering services business, and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, has won a contract valued in excess of £1mn to provide specialised equipment and services for multiple plug and

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Helix Energy Solutions has announced the extension of its decommissioning contract with Trident Energy do Brasil Ltda.

The contract extension is for an additional 12

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In its latest operations update, British independent upstream oil and gas company, Serica Energy, announced that its investment plans for the Bruce and Keith Light Well Intervention Vessel (LWIV) campaign is on track to take place between March and May

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As part of a North Sea project this year, subsea engineering company Interventek will be supplying a newly developed, compact and lightweight bore selector technology to decommissioning services provider, Well-Safe

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Cooper Energy Limited, an exploration and production company, has announced that the Helix Q7000 vessel has commenced work on the first well of the Basker Manta Gummy (BMG)

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Aquaterra Energy, a leader in global offshore energy engineering solutions, has won a three-year contract with a leading UK exploration and production company to provide analysis

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Independent wells expert, Elemental Energies, has announced the senior appointment of Willem Boon von Ochssee as Head of Wells.

The key appointment comes as the company charts a course

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Pertamina, an Indonesia state-owned oil and gas corporation, has revealed that it is exploring Rig-to-CCS (carbon capture storage) developments with Korea National Oil Company (KNOC).

The collaboration aims to repurpose offshore oil and gas platforms into CCS

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A UK£1mn investment in developing its largest subsea Chopsaw to date has paid off for Decom Engineering (Decom) following impressive results on its first deployment.

The C1-46 Chopsaw played a pivotal role in a subsea infrastructure decommissioning

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40 years since the launch of its first subsea test tree system, Expro, a leading energy services provider, has remained at the forefront of subsea landing string technology.

The first 10ksi subsea test tree assembly (SSTTA) was created for an exploration and appraisal well project for Hamilton Brothers in the North Sea in

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Leading institutional investor in the global energy and infrastructure sectors, EIG, has entered into definitive agreements with Novonor S.A. and the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) in order to acquire

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Chevron Corporation has announced that for its fourth quarter 2023 it will be impairing a portion of its US upstream assets due to continuing regulatory

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Increased understanding around the scale of the global decommissioning work on the horizon is attracting more attention and sizeable related spending. This report tracks engagement with end-of-life obligations across key regions across the globe, providing a holistic

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Offshore Network’s newly released Global Offshore Decommissioning & Abandonment Report tracks the growing need for end-of-life activities that is becoming an increasingly

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